diff --git a/_test/bin3.go b/_test/bin3.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..afb277ad3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_test/bin3.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package main
+
+import "fmt"
+
+func main() {
+	str := "part1"
+	str += fmt.Sprintf("%s", "part2")
+	fmt.Println(str)
+}
+
+// Output:
+// part1part2
diff --git a/interp/run.go b/interp/run.go
index 2f396040b..5db1887d0 100644
--- a/interp/run.go
+++ b/interp/run.go
@@ -901,8 +901,10 @@ func callBin(n *node) {
 			return fnext
 		}
 	default:
-		switch n.anc.kind {
-		case defineStmt, assignStmt, defineXStmt, assignXStmt:
+		switch n.anc.action {
+		case aAssign, aAssignX:
+			// The function call is part of an assign expression, we write results direcly
+			// to assigned location, to avoid an additional assign operation.
 			rvalues := make([]func(*frame) reflect.Value, funcType.NumOut())
 			for i := range rvalues {
 				c := n.anc.child[i]